“And the men who were with them there for
the first time were eager to do the like. Thus, although we are
born neither good nor bad, we become one or the other; and
having formed habits, we are with difficulty drawn from them. But
when irrational animals fell short, these bastard men tasted also human
flesh. For it was not a long step to the consumption of flesh
like their own, having first tasted it in other
forms.